sus synergize

When someone's push to collaborate, align, or synergize feels less like genuine teamwork and more like a strategic move to absorb credit, offload blame, or establish leverage. Sus synergize is the office political play disguised as cooperation — the colleague who keeps adding you to meetings and CC'ing leadership, the manager who wants to 'co-own' your project right before the review cycle. It's synergizing with an ulterior motive, and the moment you clock it, every subsequent outreach from that person reads as suspicious regardless of intent.